Lots of people are connecting the dots, sadly none of them reside in Treasury (stuffed full of very bright people with zero experience of the private sector that generates tax revenue) or No.11 (occupied by a person trying to convince us she has not raised tax on working people).

Ben Judah on civil service relationships: "We have left any critique of the civil service to Dominic Cummings and Danny Kruger. We can't do that, we need to answer problems which special adviser and ministers have with the state that in so many ways isn't working. "The Cabinet

Wrote about this in the context of Leeds getting its transport plans wrecked, yet again https://t.co/J0QxzV0M1G

Conveniently ignores the facts of pretty much every economy across the entire World over the past 125 years, that Communist societies are awful for working people whilst Capitalist systems have raised the living standards of billions of people. @Heccles94

This is so woefully bad it's laughable Construction was *5x higher* during the depths of the '08 housing crisis than it is now. Heads should roll

A number of angry responses to this. Many people seem to think that trade-offs don't exist. A few things to consider: 1. Some disabled kids definitely need taxis to get to school 2. Some disabled people definitely need a Motability car 3. The government made a number of changes

For all of this century it’s always been easier for young folks to find work in the UK than in the EU, where youth unemployment rates were consistently higher than UK. It explains why so many young, educated, ambitious Europeans flocked to the UK to work, much to our mutual

Amazing. Today, BBC reports two jailed for plotting "UK's most deadly terror attack" ever on Jews, yet here are @MyriamFrancoisC and @AyoCaesar chatting about how anti-semitism is exaggerated by "hyper-privileged" Jews pulling HMG strings. (@AyoCaesar you are better than this.)

Racism is as racism does. This is exactly the same narrative or as the Novara millenials would say 'racist tropes' as Nazi propoganda this really is 1930s language.

What is the income threshhold above which you are not allowed to have an opinion?

100% the billionaire, you cretin. Ineos employs 4000 people and pays billions in tax. We need better MPs.

I get the point, but using the Titanic to lament the loss of a supposed golden age is an odd way to try to make your case.

The top 0.1% in the UK pay more income tax than the entire bottom 50% combined. And that was kind of working - until many of the top 0.1% decided to leave.

I fear we are fast approaching the point where a huge swathe of the country will see the Courts as actively putting at risk our safety rather than protecting it, and leaders of mainstream political parties unwilling to change laws that have over-reached their original objectives.

✅ Well said 👏 @matthewsyed You can’t wrap yourself in the Union Jack, denounce immigration, and then move to Monaco to save £4bn in tax. His language is toxic, and the hypocrisy is staggering. #JimRatcliffe

James O’Brien asks what it’s like for an ethnic minority. Let me tell him: It’s infuriating that naive, self-righteous commentators like @mrjamesob have championed the most reckless immigration policy in human history which predictably has led to an organic cultural and ethnic

If you had to summarise everything wrong with Britain's regulatory state in a sentence, you could do worse than this: The Industrial Revolution would probably be illegal today.

Ha ha exactly (Janan Ganesh)

"Vindicated"? He led us to 2 general election losses- the 2019 was catastrophic. He presided over a culture of antisemitism & the party was investigated. He had droves of MPs leave the party. Shadow ministers resigned. 2 votes of no confidence upheld which he ignored. #deluded

My Times piece: There may still be many political reasons for replacing Keir Starmer, but to think of doing so when the economic outlook appears to be improving seems strange: In fiscal terms, it’s strange to be thinking of replacing Starmer https://t.co/8yhfSotBo3